# Avoiding session timeout **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-security\ **Created:** [October 22, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-session-timeout/204658 "2019-10-22T14:02:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anon42972578](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@anon42972578](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon42972578)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-session-timeout/204658/1 "2019-10-22T14:02:47Z")
Hello, we are running in some issues and we dont know why. Kibana 7.3 Kibana session timeout 60 minutes When we running a dashboard from the default space and refresh this dashboard every 15 minutes, we dont run into a session timeout. But when we running a dashboard with the same user from another space and refresh this dashboard every 15 minutes, we run into a session timeout. Why is this happening ? How can we avoid a session timeout with dashboard which are not in the default space ? Best regards ---
**Author:** ![Brandon\_Kobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brandon_kobel/32/14829_2.png) [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-session-timeout/204658/2 "2019-10-22T16:06:11Z")
@anon42972578, do you have `xpack.security.sessionTimeout` set in your kibana.yml? Also, what do you have set for `xpack.security.authc.providers` or `xpack.security.authProviders`? ---
**Author:** ![anon42972578](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@anon42972578](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon42972578)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-session-timeout/204658/3 "2019-10-23T08:24:26Z")
@Brandon_Kobel kibana.yml: xpack.security.sessionTimeout: 3600000 ( 60 minutes ) xpack.security.authProviders: [saml,basic] server.xsrf.whitelist: [/api/security/v1/saml] in both cases, i used basic auth via "/login" in URL with the same user. ---
**Author:** ![Brandon\_Kobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brandon_kobel/32/14829_2.png) [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-session-timeout/204658/4 "2019-10-23T13:01:12Z")
@anon42972578 The space that a dashboard is in shouldn't be affecting the session timeout behavior. Do you happen to have multiple "tabs" open for Kibana in the same browser? ---
**Author:** ![anon42972578](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@anon42972578](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon42972578)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-session-timeout/204658/5 "2019-10-23T13:06:49Z")
i have multiple "tabs" open on my Pi, yes. But only 1 Tab is Kibana. I change the tabs via "tabs resolver". Could it be possible that the refresh of the dashboard is not working in the background ? ---
**Author:** ![Brandon\_Kobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brandon_kobel/32/14829_2.png) [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-session-timeout/204658/6 "2019-10-23T13:50:23Z")
@anon42972578, it's certainly possible. What types of visualizations are in the Dashboard which is unexpectedly timing out? ---
**Author:** ![anon42972578](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@anon42972578](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon42972578)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-session-timeout/204658/7 "2019-10-23T14:04:05Z")
all are type = TSVB tried out another dashboard with timelion, working fine ---
**Author:** ![Brandon\_Kobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brandon_kobel/32/14829_2.png) [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-session-timeout/204658/8 "2019-10-23T18:11:29Z")
Hey @anon42972578, there are currently a sub-set of XHR requests that are executed by Kibana which don't extend the session timeouts because they're using a "non-standard" approach. TSVB happens to be one of these. [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/39477](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/39477) will fix this issue, but the earliest this fix will be available is in 7.6. It's an incredibly ugly hack, but if you add a non-TSVB Visualization to the dashboard, that should keep the dashboard from expiring your session prematurely. ---
**Author:** ![anon42972578](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@anon42972578](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon42972578)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-session-timeout/204658/9 "2019-10-24T06:29:17Z")
@Brandon_Kobel Thank you so much! Adding a non-TSVB Visualization is a good workaround for us, until 7.6 is released. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-session-timeout/204658/10 "2019-11-21T06:29:20Z")
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